Springfield daily republic. [volume] (Springfield, O. [Ohio]) 1887-1888, 1887-08-15
Dor BILE DEALING.

The only successful business man Is the
one who has one price on his goods Tor AL
customers. The man who has one price
tor one patron and another for another
huyer is soon caught at his little game and
the public is quite likely Ia lose confidence
in his honesty No man likes 10 pay double
price for an article in order that another
more favored buyer may purchase the same
article at or below cost This sort ot little
game is being played lust now, a II has
been before, by Il local newspaper called the
Champion Citu Times. City subscribers,
50 many of them As still remain upon its
list, are paying for il at the rate of ten
cents per week. while many persons in this
city. New Carlisle, Yellow Springs, Irb"na.
Enon, South Charleston, and other towns.
who do not want the paper at any price,
are having it forced upon them, by
the carriers leaving it at their
door every evening. 1t is left gratuitously.
which is about its real value as newSpa-
per. but few. if any of the inhabitants care
to be- cheated and many feel that they are
being imposed upon by having to carry the
litter out of their yards. All this time tie
patrons of the Times in these towns con
tinue 10 pay ten cents per week, for the
paper. Those who still continue 10 take II
should look into this matter and insist upon
getting the paper Just As cheap As anybody
else They certainly have no reason to pay
exorbitant prices in order that their neigh
bors may be given the paper for nothing.
They have just as good a right Ia get the
paper free. at its real value. a. Others. and
all they have to de is 10 protest and they
will get the paper for nothing as is their
right under the practice Of the Times
company. At some towns tIev
ATE oIllS charging the Old price for the pa
per-tiye cents per week: 50 it seems they
take whatever they can get. and if they can
get nothing. they take nothing, and send
the paper an, way.
This double dealing does not only apply
o subscriptions, but 10 advertising as well.
The managers, in their frantic efforts To
ret business. sell their space at any price.
II NtiIl ~ iuVili'- III
ceiving merchant. they charge him a good
fair rate, but Others are implOred to take
space at any price, and some. even. had
their advertisement inserted free, after de
lining I" make contract. Now. if one
merchant gets advertising for nothing. or
gets very low rate others have the same
right. and should demand il.
The few patrons retained by the Times
nave right TO expect fair dealing.
The Cincinnati Times Star contrasts the
republican and democratic standard bearers
IN Ohio, in the following very forcible man
ner:
Between the standard bearers of the two
parties in this campaign. Ohio veterans
should not make much time 10 make a
'hoice. No rebel flags shall b. surren-
trred while | am governor" says Governor
Foraker. NUNS the word" says Mr..
Powell. When Captain Lyon. republican
andidate for lieutenant governor. was in
Libby prison, every tooth loose with the
,curvy. The rebels made him proposition
or his freedom. He was a shoe
maker. and they offered him his lib
'rty and pay in abundance if he would
make shoes for the army until his exchange.
lie informed them that he would rot in
Libby before he would make shoe for a
rebel. That is the kind of soldier Captain
Lyon is. The nearest approach 10 mill
tary experience on the part of his opponent.
Lr. Goldman. was his command of a lot OF
imported Italian coolies. whom he could
treat as machines. and whome he preferred
q American laborerS. because the latter
an not be treated a. machines. Foraker
and Powell. Lyon and Goldman. Contrast
their records, soldiers of Ohio. and say
which is most deserving of your votes.